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There are cemeteries in Pennsylvania that hold both Confederate and Union soldiers' graves. I'm not sure about New York or New Jersey.

I've yet to find a cemetery in Pennsylvania that doesn't feature Confederate war dead without a Union cemetery close behind.

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Originally Posted by NYMTman

From the National Weather Service, the 30-year average hi/low annual temperatures (in F) at BWI are 65.6/45.7. In Raleigh, 71.2/49.3. At Richmond-RIC: 69.3/48.1. At New York-Central Park: 62.6/47.9. At PHL: 64.6/47.0.

The problem with the hardiness zones is they're based on arbitrary cutoffs. And not even arbitrary cutoffs of average temperatures, but of the absolute coldest low temp an area will see in a given year, on average.

Hardiness zones are arbitrary, but average snowfall and temperatures aren't? If you've spent time in Maryland, you know that the weather in the winter here is notoriously unpredictable. The state is right in the middle between the colder weather to the north and the warmer weather to the south. It also has a number of geographic peculiarities, so you'll never know what you're going to get. What someone may get in one part of Central Maryland can be different from what someone else gets in another part of Central Maryland.

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Originally Posted by GoPhils

I still don't know why you're using a 240-year old line as the basis of your argument.

And even though Maryland didn't officially secede, many soldiers and officers ended up serving for the Confederacy. You can still receive CSV stickers from Maryland MVA's, and a Maryland "hall" is featured along with other former Confederate states in the Confederate Museum in Richmond.

"Although the Museum was a local institution, its founders conceived of it as belonging to the whole South. The Museum was separated into rooms dedicated to the collections amassed by each of the eleven undisputed Confederate states, and by Missouri and Kentucky (which were represented in both the U.S. and Confederate Congresses) and Maryland (which remained in the Union but provided thousands of soldiers to the Confederacy). "

The Museum of the Confederacy: History of the MOC (http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_ov_history - broken link)

Ah, the age old question. It seems Maryland has a bit of an identity crisis going on. Growing up in southern Maryland, I always considered Maryland to be in the south. In fact, Virginia always seemed more "northern" culturally than Maryland to me before I went to southwest Virginia.
Now my roommate is from Montgomery county, which I consider to be practically DC, and that area is nothing like my part of Maryland. The DC suburbs seem culturally opposite to the rest of Maryland, so i've jokingly suggested tacking Montgomery and much of PG onto DC with Northern Virginia, to solve this whole identity crisis and DC's "boo hoo we're not a state" thing.

I would say overall though, Maryland is either lightly southern or just has it's own culture altogether. Probably the latter.

And even though Maryland didn't officially secede, many soldiers and officers ended up serving for the Confederacy. You can still receive CSV stickers from Maryland MVA's, and a Maryland "hall" is featured along with other former Confederate states in the Confederate Museum in Richmond.

"Although the Museum was a local institution, its founders conceived of it as belonging to the whole South. The Museum was separated into rooms dedicated to the collections amassed by each of the eleven undisputed Confederate states, and by Missouri and Kentucky (which were represented in both the U.S. and Confederate Congresses) and Maryland (which remained in the Union but provided thousands of soldiers to the Confederacy). "

The Museum of the Confederacy: History of the MOC (http://www.moc.org/site/PageServer?pagename=abt_ov_history - broken link)

I only brought up that article because andrew kept claiming all of MD was "Dixie." I don't disagree that part of MD definitely has a southern culture, but it's tough to consider all of MD as a southern state.

In many ways it is, starting with the Baltimore accent and dialect. Also DC is more fast paced than Baltimore is by a long shot. When I rode the subway from Shot Tower to Mondawmin people moved relatively slow and stood on both the left and right side of the escalator. If that were to happen in DC you would get knocked down or cursed out. People in Baltimore are not in a hurry which is a southern trait.

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